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some didn’t agree with Kirk but didn’t believe he should die for his views.

I just need to call this part out because it keeps getting repeated. I don't think hardly anybody thinks he deserved to die for his views. His actions, on the other hand, really get people's attention.

I think they are asking you to use past tense even discussing attributes of the awful former human charlie kirk.

I see it as a light hearted joke, but with an undertone of "but seriously fuck that guy -- sorry, former guy"

This might be my new favorite bible quote.

I've never had one before. I've been aware of a bunch. Maybe I would have chosen Austin 3:16 for a while as a smart ass teenager in the 90s. But now I have one and it's this.

Maybe it was intentional and maybe it was luck, but to me this brief passage reaches deep into kinds of things that make for happy vs miserable people.

I can't help but notice how Jesus pretty clearly points out that there is no hierarchy when it comes to caring for one another.

Everything you said is true, but the maga label narrows the context unnecessarily. It's been the Republican MO for decades, and the Democrats have generally presented as less forceful christians. But it's because it works on the people they target with it.

The people who make it a regular habit to attack others because of who they are, yet also somehow have a persecution complex, find it pretty easy to assume that when one of their own gets attacked it's because of who they are too. It's like a damned street gang that's looking for a fight. "One of themmmm killed one of ussss, time to counter attack! To waaar!"

"... oh shit THAT bullet was from our side TOO? I think nobody noticed. Can we get this party started or what!?"

It's as gross as it is predictable. Their reactions to these shootings always follow the same rule: a member of the master race killing one of the subhumans is just an unfortunate fact of life, but one of the subhumans killing a member of the master race merits national if not global headlines that will at minimum be memorable trivia for people who lived through that year.

And I say this as an old white dude.

Not necessarily, IMO. You tilt your head back to look up, but you don't tilt your head left to look right.

I think it's an issue of mapping potentially 6 axes of movement to a 2D plane. They don't all line up the same way. Left and right in the game line up with left and right on the mousepad, but up and down in the game map to forward and back with the mouse.

Thinking of the mouse being glued to the top of your head works better for me.

I agree and oh man did I love that config.

But over the years there would be those asshole games that were still worth playing, or once I had a kid it would be some janky game he was having fun with.

So I actually managed to convert to WASD then years later to non-inverted.

It's certainly not better, but it sure is convenient.

A conservative saying something that sounds reasonable in order to convince the listener that the opposite is true.

Conservative messaging 101 right there.

For some it takes a village.

For some like Charlie it takes an orgy. Of exclusively middle aged dad bods.

Just accept it as a fact and its easier to live life that way

That reminds me of something my old buddy tiny-face Charlie used to say.

He had shitty opinions

I think we should stop saying this.

He was killed for his actions, not his opinions. His audience members are the ones who kill for opinions.

Discussing his personal opinions feels like a bit of a republican both sidesing talking point, honestly. I mean, if one side can kill the other just for having conservative opinions, then certainly they can fight back and kill people just for having blue hair and using the "wrong" bathroom!

It was the same with talk radio hosts decades ago. People would argue whether Limbaugh or Hannity really believe all the BS or if they just do it for ratings.

I only remember caring about that distinction when I was still immersed in the conservatism I was born into.

edit: added many word was not there

The angry and scared conservative mind is always on the lookout for a way to let some hatred loose without it looking bad to the people they care about. That plus the persecution complex is a nasty combination. One they have been intentionally conditioned to have.

I remember hearing old racists in the 90s yearn for the day the race war comes. THEN they were gonna do all the violent stuff they've been talking about doing to all them dirty insert-exactly-the-word-you-think-they-saids.

It's the same thing with everything from gun nut home defense fantasies to "just let them say something to me" warriors acting like somebody is going to hold them back.

Not only is it all hollow bluster and superficial iamverybadass image, but they are pretending to be an even more hateful and violent person than they really are, in order to seem cool. They don't just act like children. They act like the bad kids.

And to be fair, they were probably raised by angry violent conservatives.